Era data and technology lead

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Enterprise Risk & Audit (ERA) helps Haleon make sound risk management decisions and drive positive change across the business. Our aim is to be a trusted, high-performing function known for objective assurance, strong business understanding, and clear, practical insight. We provide independent assurance that supports Haleon’s purpose: to deliver better everyday health with humanity.

ERA brings together risk and internal control expertise with knowledge of key business areas. We work closely with stakeholders to understand emerging risks, identify issues early, and deliver assurance that is relevant, practical, and responsive to change.

About the role

This role is accountable for managing and supporting ERA’s technology, tools, data and reporting, ensuring they are reliable, effective and aligned to Internal Audit priorities. The role also develops and delivers data analytics to support audit planning, fieldwork and leadership requests. This helps improve audit coverage and effectiveness by moving from sample-based testing towards fuller population analysis. From time to time, the role may also support Internal Audits focused on financial, operational, technology, ethics and compliance risks.

1. Internal Audit Technology, Data & Analytics Leadership

• Manage ERA’s application portfolio, including the Internal Audit Management System, Aligned Assurance Mapping, Retain Scheduling, Documentum, data storage, and access management across ERA and wider enterprise systems.
• Own and evolve the Internal Audit data landscape, including Power BI, data models, and reporting platforms, while defining standards for data quality, consistency, and usability.
• Design scalable and repeatable analytics across key audit domains to enable full-population testing, broader audit coverage, and stronger assurance outcomes.
• Translate audit requirements into practical data and technology solutions, working closely with IT and system owners to drive insight, efficiency, and effective implementation.

2. Audit Lifecycle Technical Oversight

• Shape planning RFIs and challenge data completeness, feasibility, extraction limitations, and alternative evidence routes.
• Support audit teams with data-driven testing approaches, feasibility assessments, structured analysis, and control testing insight.
• Apply strong problem-solving skills, audit methodology knowledge, and professional challenge to strengthen assurance quality where data constraints exist.

3. Automation, Innovation & AI Enablement

• Design and govern automation solutions, including Power Automate workflows, that support audit processes and operational efficiency.
• Identify, develop, and scale practical AI and automation use cases across the audit lifecycle to improve insight and coverage.
• Evaluate automation and AI outputs for accuracy, bias, control integrity, and responsible adoption within an assurance environment.

4. Management Action Plans (MAPs) Governance & Reporting

• Own MAP reporting logic and central tracking, ensuring consistency in closure status, timeliness, narrative quality, and ownership.
• Provide guidance on MAP implications for executive and Audit & Risk Committee reporting, including escalation of disputed evidence or timelines.
• Ensure MAP outputs are accurate, credible, and aligned to strong governance and control expectations.

5. Aligned Assurance Mapping & Risk Integration

• Lead Aligned Assurance Mapping (AAM) initiatives across Internal Audit, SOX, Risk, Compliance, and External Audit.
• Rationalize assurance data sources to enable reuse, automation, efficiency, and improved enterprise insight.
• Influence stakeholders across functions to reduce duplication, strengthen coverage visibility, and embed coordinated assurance practices.

6. Financial Management & Co-source Oversight

• Own the ERA budget models, including forecasting, run rates, variance analysis, and financial control discipline.
• Manage the end-to-end co-source onboarding process and track co-source utilization and ensure effective, value-driven use of external providers such as PwC, Deloitte, and EY.
• Provide clear financial insight and decision support to senior stakeholders, applying commercial judgement to balance cost, efficiency, and audit quality.

7. Knowledge Management & Operational Sustainability

• Centralize documentation for analytics, dashboards, and audit processes to ensure consistency and knowledge retention.
• Support onboarding, handovers, and evolving delivery models to reduce key-person dependency and build operational resilience.
• Embed structured, repeatable, and scalable ways of working, applying a problem-solving mindset to continuously improve long-term effectiveness.

Key performance indicators (financial and non-financial)

• ERA technology supports and enables Haleon’s Core Audit Methodology.
• Reduces the volume of substantive work performed by the Internal Audit Team.
• Supports delivery of audit assignments to the required quality, time, and budget.
• Builds effective stakeholder relationships.

Stakeholder Management & Strategic Influence

Proven track record in building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships, excellent communication, and interpersonal skills. Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior stakeholders, including Directors and VPs, building credibility through expertise within ERA, and outside of ERA. Deliver clear, insight-driven outputs such as dashboards, summaries, and assurance views to support decision-making. Demonstrate strong communication and influencing skills across complex, cross-functional environments, including influencing without direct authority.

Skills & Experience

Background – Experienced working in dynamic Internal Audit, risk, control or technology-enabled assurance environments, with the confidence to operate through ambiguity, build credibility quickly, and work effectively with senior stakeholders in a flat organizational structure. Able to adapt approach as priorities evolve while maintaining focus on quality, governance and practical delivery.

Audit Lifecycle – Familiarity with the end-to-end audit lifecycle, with hands-on experience supporting or performing audit work across areas such as Finance, Commercial, Technology, and Supply Chain.

Commercial Focus – Pragmatic and commercially aware, with the judgement to balance risk, value, cost, effort and stakeholder need. Able to priorities effectively, challenge constructively, and translate technical or assurance considerations into clear, business-relevant recommendations.

Problem Solving and Analytical Skills – Strong structured thinker with curiosity, professional scepticism and the ability to simplify complex issues. Able to connect data, process, risk and control perspectives, identify root causes, and guide others towards practical, proportionate solutions.

Data Governance & Preservation – Proficient in areas such as Data Archiving (ARMS), Data Classification, Data Privacy and Data Preservation, acting as the department lead to support consistent application of requirements, good governance and effective information management practices.

Qualifications & Technical Capabilities

Educated to degree level or above (bachelors or masters) in a Technology, Accounting, Finance or Business-related subject.

Microsoft 365 / Office 365: Use Teams, SharePoint, Power Automate, Power Apps and other Office apps as an integrated workflow and knowledge-management ecosystem.

Power BI: Develop and oversee dashboards, reports and apps; understand data models, DAX, refresh logic, performance and reporting standards.

Advanced Excel: Advanced data handling, modelling, validation, reconciliation and root-cause analysis for audits and finance.

Power Automate: Design, review and manage flows, with awareness of governance, dependencies and operational risk.

SQL: Write, understand, validate and challenge SQL queries used to extract, reconcile and analyses data.

Python: Working knowledge for data analysis, automation and analytics use cases, including interpreting scripts for audit suitability.

AI Tools & Agents: Use and configure AI tools and agents; evaluate outputs for accuracy, control, audit suitability, responsible AI, data governance and security.

Others

Travel opportunities across Haleon. Candidate should be able to travel up to 10%.

Flexible working.

Job Posting End Date

2026-10-31

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

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